Quotes About Compassion

Then Leona surprised him. "You talking about that boy? He's just bored and lonely, don't know no better. You could probably make friends with him real easy if you tried." He laughed. "Well, that's what's the matter with most people," Leona insisted, plaintively, "ain't got nobody to be with. That's what makes them so evil. I'm telling you, boy, I know.

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it.

Judgment," she said, "has nothing to do with love.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself. That

We are happy, even, that we have food enough for Daniel, who eats peacefully, not knowing that we are laughing, but sensing that something wonderful has happened to us, which means that wonderful things happen, and that maybe something wonderful will happen to him. It's wonderful, anyway, to be able to help a person to have that feeling.

people love different people in different ways—

Es un milagro darnos cuenta de que alguien nos quiere.

One cannot argue with anyone's experience or decision or belief.

You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people's pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less.

Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself. That is not a mystical statement but a most realistic one...

One had to make one's way carefully here, for all these people were blind.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind; indifference makes one blind.

I will smile at you when you wake up.

If the world wasn't so full of dead folks maybe those of us that's trying to live wouldn't have to suffer so bad.

who watches German prisoners of war being treated by Americans with more human dignity than he has ever received at their hands.

And if it's children you're after, well, you can do that in five minutes and you you haven't got to love anybody to do it. If all the children who get here every year were brought here by love, wow! baby, what a bright world this would be!

One day, when you're happy, try to forgive me.

dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about that; one watched the things they did and the excuses that they gave themselves, and if a white man was really in trouble, deep trouble, it was to the Negro's door that he came.

If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving.

ou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connect me with all the people that were alive, or who had ever been alive.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read

If we know, and do nothing, we are worse that the murderers hired in our name. If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own - which it is - and render impasssable with our bodies the corridor the the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.